jupyter / jupyter/notebook

Select all in output area selects entire page text

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Description

notebook 5.7.8
ipython 7.5.0
Firefox 67.0
macOS

In output cell area, select all selects all the text on the entire page window.

**Expected:** select all in output area selects just the output text
like it does currently in cells

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue in a Jupyter Notebook output cell using the reported Firefox and macOS context, then compare Select All behavior with a notebook code cell. Done means selecting all within the output area selects only the output text rather than text across the page.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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